I personally feel that "top schools" are overrated. But, I don't know that I would look at the money either. Look at the place you want to live. Where you want to spend those years. Look at what the schools have to offer and the locations.
I don't think my husband has ever hda a patient ask him what med school he went to. I just don't think it matters all that much. What it comes down to is being happy with where you are. What does he want to go into as far as residency?
I mean, some of the academic med people on this site will probably disagree with me, and it is true that names matter in those instances, but I don't think they matter as much as networking and research and how you do in school. Maybe it would be easier for him to do well in med school if he had scholarships and you didn't have to worry as much about money. What about the cost of living?
I mean, we were just happy to get into med school, and we went where we could get in. It was a mid-teir school, but dh did well in med school and now is in a competative specialty. He probably could have done a competative residency, but chose not to apply to the "top" programs because it was better for us not to live in the cities where those programs exist.
I think there is more to it than money versus name, but only my opinion.
I don't think my husband has ever hda a patient ask him what med school he went to. I just don't think it matters all that much. What it comes down to is being happy with where you are. What does he want to go into as far as residency?
I mean, some of the academic med people on this site will probably disagree with me, and it is true that names matter in those instances, but I don't think they matter as much as networking and research and how you do in school. Maybe it would be easier for him to do well in med school if he had scholarships and you didn't have to worry as much about money. What about the cost of living?
I mean, we were just happy to get into med school, and we went where we could get in. It was a mid-teir school, but dh did well in med school and now is in a competative specialty. He probably could have done a competative residency, but chose not to apply to the "top" programs because it was better for us not to live in the cities where those programs exist.
I think there is more to it than money versus name, but only my opinion.
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